{"id":37,"date":"2005-04-12T14:30:19","date_gmt":"2005-04-12T18:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/04\/12\/of-burberry-and-baby-names\/"},"modified":"2005-04-12T14:30:19","modified_gmt":"2005-04-12T18:30:19","slug":"of-burberry-and-baby-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/04\/12\/of-burberry-and-baby-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Burberry and Baby Names"},"content":{"rendered":"

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First, a completely random thought:  I wish that my office had one of those cafeteria milk
\ndispensers.  It would really help mid-afternoon brownie breaks.<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

Back when I was a high school prepster, the Burberry plaid scarf meant
\nsomething.  It was the garment that most represented the East
\nCoast boarding school establishment, and it was scarce in and
\ninpractical  for San Francisco (it was mainly spotted on Japanese
\ntourists during these years).  Then in 2001-2002, after a few
\nyears of growing momentum, the  scarf “took off” and became the
\ntrophy item of the masses and the bling bling set, thus, destroying its
\nonce exclusive aura.<\/p>\n

It appears that baby names<\/a> undergo this same process.  Certain names are popular with the upper-middle class in year 1, but within 5-10 years, they trickle down to mass popularity<\/a>. 
\nFor instance, during the 1990s, in California, Madison and Lauren, were
\nin the top-5 for upper-middle class names.  By 2000, these names
\nreached spots 3 and 6 respectively on the most popular overall
\nchart.  Hence, around the time when new parents everywhere started
\nswathing their new babies in Burberry-patterned bunting, they bestowed
\nupon them the Burberry equivalent of names.<\/p>\n

Let’s hope that little Greta’s name is safe.  When I was compiling
\na list for our pater familias, it came up as 705 in overall
\npopularity  for 2003 in the Social Security Adminstration database<\/a>.  But it is trending upwards (it was only 845 in 1999).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First, a completely random thought:  I wish that my office had one of those cafeteria milk dispensers.  It would really help mid-afternoon brownie breaks. ** Back when I was a high school prepster, the Burberry plaid scarf meant something.  It was the garment that most represented the East Coast boarding school establishment, and it was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}